Social and Personal Identity
Subtitle: Understanding Yourself
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781848606036; 9781280538698
Subjects: Self-perception; Group identity; Identity (Psychology)
Description: How can you understand yourself? Where do your views, attitudes and values come from and why do they change? In this accessible and illuminating book Derek Layder attempts to provide a reliable guide to these complicated questions and: Demonstrates that personal identity is formed around basic needs for security and self-esteem and the personal desires that flow from them. Shows the role of the emotions in personal life. Explores the limits of approaches that deny the existence of |individuals' and |personal experience'. Demonstrates how we build on everyday problems and dilemmas of life to sh.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1; title: Understanding YourSelf; Chapter 2; title: Emotional Needs and Desires; Chapter 3; title: Your Controling Heart; Chapter 4; title: Desire, Influence and Control; Chapter 5; title: Inner Power and the Higher Self; Chapter 6; title: Relationships and Their Dilemmas; Chapter 7; title: Personal Worlds and Private Feelings; Chapter 8; title: The Self as Emergent Narrative; Afterword; References; Index.